Android Developer

Responsibilities
- Design and build highly reliable and performant applications that deliver a great user
experience.
- Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
- Take the accountability of the overall health of the applications you build.
- Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
- Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.
- Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured
problem solving to development of best practices.
Requirements
- Deep expertise of the iOS and Android ecosystems.
- Hands on experience with either React Native, Flutter, Swift or Kotlin.
- Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, systems.
- Experience with abstracting requirements into frameworks.
- Hungry to learn, share knowledge, and enjoy mentoring others.
- Data driven, having customer empathy, striving to build stable, delightful applications.
- [Optional, but desired] Experience with video streaming and Real Time Communication
technologies

Roles and Responsibilities

Key Performance Indicators:

Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code.

1. Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable and reliable Java code.
2. Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
3. Help in maintaining code quality, organization, and automatization.
4. Participating with the technical team in the execution of projects
5. Preparing the project documentation on its completion.
6. Analyzing defects and fixing it.
7. Maintaining On-time delivery of the projects.

 

Mandatory Skills:

1. Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, OOP Design, JSON, Retrofit, Firebase
2. Strong knowledge of Android SDK & different versions of Android.
3. Application development paradigms, memory management, and multi-threading
4. Comprehensive understanding of Android application architecture, Activities, Services, Intents, Content Providers and Notifications, Fragments, Application Development life-cycle, Web Apps, and Web View.
5. Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with clients at all levels and understand requirements carefully.
6. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
7. Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
8. Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
9. Understanding of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines.
10. A knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code.
11. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
12. Excellent attention to detail.
13. Good troubleshooting skills.
14. Basic knowledge of MVVM architecture

 

 

Job Description:

 

• Work closely with various people and teams throughout the entire app development cycle (concept, design, build, deploy & test) in an agile environment.
• Design and build applications for the Android platform.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards.
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like Git.
• Maintain and update the existing mobile app.

 

 

Reporting Structure

• This position reports to the Team Leader - Technology.

 

Job Specifications

 

• An Graduate in IT or Post graduate or Engineer in IT; with 4+ years’ of relevant experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Flutter is a must.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, decision making and technical ability.

 

Android Developer:

1 to 5 years of experience Android mobile app development

• Proficient in Kotlin
• Experience in MVVM Code architecture
• Understanding of using Jetpack libraries in Android
• Experience in RxJava techniques
• Capable of learning a new technology like Flutter
• Knowledge in Android app life cycle
• Have experience in Android app submission in PlayStore
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Proven software development experience and Android skills development
• Proven working experience in Android app development
• Have published at least one original Android app
• Experience with Android SDK
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle

At Cityflo, we are solving the problem of commuting to the office which affects employees in big, populated Indian cities every day. Cityflo provides a bus experience like no other - we run premium AC buses for daily commuters.  We’re changing the way urban Indians commute and enabling everyone to reclaim hours of their time every day. Before the imposed lockdown due to coronavirus, we were serving about 7500 commuters per day. We plan to scale to 5,00,000 rides per day in the next 4 years in a profitable and sustainable manner.

We're looking for people who are passionate about creating great Android applications.
You've been around for a few API levels and you know how to delight Android users. You’ve got an eye for the beautiful Android design our users expect and an attention to detail down to the very last dpi. You know your way around the View hierarchy and are eager to partner with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences. You like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product.

You can read more about our engineering and culture on our blog: https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/" target="_blank">https://blog.cityflo.com/tag/engineering/

What you should have:

 

• At least three years of engineering experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience
• Familiarity with design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms.
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles
• Experience developing highly performant Kotlin code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking
• An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
• MVVM design architecture pattern for android.

Preferred skills:

• Open Source contributions & participation in programs like Google Summer of Code are a plus.
• Have published one or more Android apps on the Play Store.
• Dependency injections: Dagger, Koin.
• Multi-threading and coroutines in Kotlin/Rxjava.

About the Role:

Are you a talented & enthusiastic Android development expert with a love for mobile based technology and Open-Source communities? Would you like to work on a project with large social impact? Are you experienced with Databases on Android, creating developer APIs and complete Android applications? Are you comfortable leading a small team and interacting with stakeholders from customers and outside stakeholders? Then we would like to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Take part in the development and enhancement of an Open-Source SDK
• Be both an individual contributor with hands-on development responsibility, as well as a mentor and lead for a small developer team
• Contribute to the Open-Source community interaction, including participation in the discussion forums
• Review code contributions, review pull requests
• Create and maintain the documentation for the SDK
• Design and development a usable and functional Android reference app
• Hands-on Android development, including feature development, troubleshooting, debugging, problem solving and bug fixing
• Design and run your own unit test cases, integration test cases and test automation
• Analyze new requirements, investigate feasibility, suggest implementation options and estimate efforts timeline, dependencies and risks
• Collaborate closely with other development team members, including some being located at other parts of the world

Required Skills:

• 9+ years of experience in the software development industry
• 5+ years of experience in Android development
• 5+ years of experience in Java and/or Kotlin, with strong programming and software engineering skills
• Good understanding of Android related programming patterns and OS facilities, including activities, fragments, views, lifecycles and UI components
• Experience with SQLite database development
• Excellent communication skills, especially written
• Experience in creating software architecture and design document, as well as externally-focused technical documentations
• Readiness to work in a global team with contributors from different backgrounds, skills and locations
• Experience in leading small technical teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Software/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or comparable relevant experience

Preferred Bonus Skills:

• Experience in Design and Implementation of RESTful APIs
• Experience in Database design and implementation
• High proficiency in Kotlin, including multi-threading and synchronization (Kotlin coroutines)
• Experience in Open-Source development
• GitHub experience (Continuous Integration, GitHub routines)
• Real-life experience with mainstream commercial-grade mobile apps used by a broad user base (please provide links to app listings)
• Experience with Jetpack libraries (fragment library, recycler view)
• Familiarity with Java 8 libraries such as Java Time
• Hands-on experience in the Agile/Scrum development process
• Good understanding of OOPS concepts, design patterns, algorithms and data structures
• Good understanding of Material Design Language and human interface guidelines
• Experience with integrating mobile applications with cloud services

Understanding of app optimization including performance optimization

-App Development for Android & ioS
-Backend framework integration with Python

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• Stay up-to-date with new technology trends

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